Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933)

Harriet Brooks was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as being next to Marie Curie in the caliberof her aptitude. She was among the first persons to discover radon and to try to determine its atomic mass. source: Wikipedia

Known for
Discoverer of atomic recoil

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